The Stragori Deception

Stragon is a powder keg waiting to explode.

It's a fractured society plagued by extremist bombings and street violence. A political climate fraught with lies, deception, and widespread public unrest. And the Terran immigrant population is in ever-growing danger of being targeted as the cause of it all... because an impostor on the ruling Directorate is pointing fingers squarely in their direction.

Exposing the fraud and defusing the violence will take a master manipulator, and Dennis Forrand is just the man for the job.

As he pulls strings across three continents, former Earth Intelligence Service agents Isabela and Angeli have their own plans to subdue the radical factions. However, with both of them under Security's gaze, not only their cover but their lives may be at stake. Somehow, they must all work together to out-con the usurper and pull Stragon back from the brink before a bloody conflict breaks out.

Humanity's struggle to claim its place among the stars continues in
SIC TRANSIT STRAGON

Arlene F. Marks has been writing since the age of 6, and she has no plans to stop. A veteran teacher of the craft, she has authored two popular literacy programs for the classroom. Her short stories have appeared online and in print, notably in an anthology of reimagined fairy tales, Grimmer Tales Volume One. She is also the author of the Sic Transit Terra space opera series (from Edge Publishing) and Adventures in Godhood, her first of several recent releases from Brain Lag Publishing. Remains to Be Seen, the sequel to Weekends Can Be Murder, is scheduled for release in 2025 as well. Arlene lives with her husband on the shore of beautiful Nottawasaga Bay, where she spends time exploring imaginary worlds, collecting interesting-looking owls, and dreaming of one day having a tidy, well-organized office.www.thewritersnest.ca